> This seems like a pretty simple mistake to have made
Elon Musk is the head of a public corporation, not a random Twitter user.
Elon Musk is the head of a public corporation, not a random Twitter user.
Seriously why? Do you go around teeeting about potentially sensitive company info? Employees don’t do it, why is Elon doing it?
IMO, if he had said this in an earnings call, or presented it in a way that made it seem "official", then I could get the problem, but it's twitter.
Several of the courts hearing DACA cases upheld the law, in at least one instance solely because of Trump's tweets established a racial motivation rather than a policy motivation for terminating the program.
The Muslim ban was heavily modified after courts repeatedly struck it down based on Trump's anti-Muslim tweets. The final version was designed to address the issues raised in the original rulings. It is limited to countries like Iran and Syria which are openly hostile to the US, and countries like Yemen and Somalia which have contributed a large portion of the membership of terrorist groups like Al Queada and ISIS. Two of the countries were added to that list Venezuela and North Korea) solely because they aren't Muslim. Persons on this list are feasibly national security concerns, which is just enough of a justification to uphold the travel ban on legal grounds.
I dunno, looking on from overseas it’s a bit surreal. Trumps tweets have normalized too, so it’s no news anymore when he tweets something outrageous.
TSLA stated five years ago that Musk's twitter is an official source of information regarding the company.
He specifically agreed to have Tesla legal review all such tweets to make sure he doesn't tweet bad information again, and promptly went and ignored that.
Except by some particularly whiny people looking for an excuse.
As pointed out many times on this thread, Elon had Tesla designate his personal twitter account as an official source of material company information. Ergo, anything he posts to twitter is potentially subject to SEC reporting requirements.
If he didn't want that responsibility tied to his private account, he should have had Tesla create him a Tesla_CEO twitter handle that he could post from instead.